Did you folks miss the part where Southern Boy said that one of the African American's that he's known was white? He's talking about true "African Americans", those who were born in an African country but moved to the US. There is no other country on earth where people with central and southern African ancestry, who were not born there, refer to themselves by their continental origin. Nobody calls themselves "African Jamaican" or African Frenchman" or "African German" or "African Haitian". I realize that is not the point of this thread, but it is relevant. "African American" is an inaccurate, polarizing term that needs to be avoided whenever possible.